Moderate: pki security and enhancement update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-2662   CVE-2012-3367   CVE-2012-2662   CVE-2012-3367  

Synopsis

Moderate: pki security and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated pki-common, pki-tps and pki-util packages that fix multiple
security issues and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat
Certificate System 8.1.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Certificate System is an enterprise software system designed to
manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployments.

Multiple cross-site scripting flaws were discovered in the Red Hat
Certificate System Agent and End Entity pages. An attacker could use these
flaws to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against victims using
Certificate System's web interface. (CVE-2012-2662)

It was discovered that Red Hat Certificate System's Certificate Manager
did not properly check certificate revocation requests performed via its
web interface. An agent permitted to perform revocations of end entity
certificates could use this flaw to revoke the Certificate Authority (CA)
certificate. (CVE-2012-3367)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

  • Red Hat Certificate System 8.1 did not previously allow using Red Hat
    Directory Server 9.0 as its internal database. This update adds support
    for Directory Server 9.0. (BZ#547527, BZ#819508)

All users of Red Hat Certificate System 8.1 are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which correct these issues and add this enhancement.
After installing this update, all Red Hat Certificate System subsystems
must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Certificate System 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Certificate System 8 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 547527 - dogtag does not work with latest 389 DS
  • BZ - 826646 - CVE-2012-2662 Certificate System: multiple XSS flaws
  • BZ - 836268 - CVE-2012-3367 Certificate System: CA certificate can be revoked

CVEs

References